-This is not intended to be a forked release for GNU tar; it's
-just an interim experimental release, mostly intended for
-large file hosts. The patches of this
-release have all been submitted via the usual channels and
-they should no longer be needed once the next official release
-of GNU tar is out.
+version 1.13.3 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-16.
+
+* A path name is excluded if any of its file name components matches an
+ excluded pattern, even if the path name was specified on the command line.
+* Bug fixes.
+
+version 1.13.2 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-14.
+
+* Bug reporting address changed to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
+* Bug fixes.
+
+version 1.13.1 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-12.
+
+* Bug fixes.
+\f
+version 1.13 - Paul Eggert, 1999-07-08.
+
+* Support for large files, e.g. files larger than 2 GB on many 32-bit hosts.
+ Also, support for larger uids, device ids, etc.
+* Many bug fixes and porting fixes.
+* This release is only for fixes. A more ambitious test release,
+ with new features, is available as part of the paxutils. Please see:
+ http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/paxutils/
+ The fixes in this release are intended to be merged with paxutils
+ at some point, but they haven't been merged yet.
+* An interim GNU tar alpha had new --bzip2 and --ending-file options,
+ but they have been removed to maintain compatibility with paxutils.
+ Please try --use=bzip2 instead of --bzip2.